I thoroughly enjoyed this story.

Strong themes regarding our justice system permeated the story line.

I am looking forward to reading more by Kris Allis.

I wanted to like A Backcourt so much, but found myself getting lost in figuring who was talking. It may have been the way it downloaded to my Kindle, but though the story was interesting at times and some of the characters help to move the story along, I felt like I walked into a movie a movie 15 minutes late and was trying to figure out what was happening.

This book shows you the problem in our judicial system, while also having sympathy for the people in charge of that very system. This book has a lot of twist and turns that show how the characters are all involved, even if they don't understand their full connections. You have sympathy for all of the villains in this book. You can see why certain characters are the way they are, even if you do not condone their behavior. There are always 6 or 7 sides to every story and you will not get bored following all of these views.

Loved the story and the characters. It held my attention from beginning to end.Would recommend i to everyone..

This was a good story but I feel that I need to read the first two books in order to understand more. It is very well written but I got a little confused by some of the characters. I like the title and think it is clever. Thanks to TSW Wordsmith and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

A Backcourt by Kris Allis

Tough to decide how to review this one…I started reading and was bombarded with names I diligently wrote down trying to figure out who was who and what was going on. I knew going in there was a hit out on one character but that was about it. As I read I imagined a spider’s web with each character starting out on the outside of the web and as each bit of information appeared the character moved closer to the center of the web where all of the characters would eventually end up and wondered as I read what would then happen.

Not being a patient reader and one who often reads the end of the book first, well, I did just that. The end of the book didn’t help me a whole lot so, still feeling a bit lost, I picked out characters from the story to trace and skimmed the threads of their stories to find out what happened in each thread of that web that I mentioned. I finally did get the gist of the story and found it an interesting, if not my favorite, way to find a story written. I still felt I might be missing something and…I think I was. Going into reading this book I didn’t realize that there were two books preceding it that more than likely would have been beneficial to have read first.

AFTER skim-reading the book the way I did I found the other three books by this author, read the blurbs for those books and came away with a bit more complete picture of what may have happened before this books started. There were definitely bad guys and good ones and assassins and alcoholics and addicts and pimps and others that made for a colorful read but I do suggest that if the storyline appeals to you that you read the books in order or at least read the blurbs for the other two books before you read this one.

Oh…even reading the end before I should have and following the threads of the story piecemeal I ended up surprised by a few twists that came my way.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC – This is my honest review.

3-4 Stars

Book 1: A False Start
Book 2: A Moving Screen
Book 3: A Backcourt